I am not a Hindu. Nor an Indian. I refuse to be identified as a part of any religious / national group as such.
Yeah, I am born in India and I live there too, and for that reason if you tell I am Indian then there is nothing objectionable in it. But if you impose on me your values and ways-of-living saying every Indian should have them, then sorry! Chuck the business! I am no Indian!
I would like to be identified as a “universal being” who is not bound in the meanness as religions or nationality!
A Hindu can not love a Muslim. An Indian can not love an American. Of course, Hindu and Muslim, or Indian and American can be friends, for worldly purposes, but they can not love each other. However much you fight in your mind against this statement, it is true that any two groups can not love each other. Because if there is love, there can not be groups on the first place. The moment you say you are Hindu you have limited your love. Confined it within the boundary. You believe in Hinduism or Islam only when you are convinced in your mind about the superiority of one religion over the other. If you believe in Hinduism then in your mind you believe that the followers of Islam or Christianity are inferior to you. How can love develop between two people when one believes oneself to be superior to the other? There can only be a contract between such people, not love.
Same is with nationality. When you say you are Indian it is okay. But when you say India is the best, there is a problem. How many places on Earth have you been to? Unless you have spent a considerable time of your life in every country how can you decide which one is best? I tell you how it is. It is called fanaticism! And two fanatics can never love each other.
Today if the followers of one religion are fighting with the followers of other religion then for this fight every single human being who believes in any so-called religion is responsible. If nations go on war then every single person believing nationality is the cause of it. The problem is not with the religions or the nations. What are they, after all? Just the names. The problem lies in the fanatic mentality. Problem lies in the minds of people who have confined their love within the boundaries such as nationality and religion. War is not destructive only when it is fought on the battlefield, it is destructive even when it exists inside your mind – which, unfortunately, it does all the time. When you believe yourself to be belonging to any group there is a silent war inside your mind which is destroying the universal unity.
The one who truly understands what religion is believes in all religions, or does not believe in any of them – both meaning the same thing. There is only one religion, which is the Religion of Truth, and it says that the world is one, and it should be regarded as one. The truth can only be one. What is true for one human being is true for another human being. It is a simple logic. It is impossible that for one group of humans Hinduism is right, and for another group of humans Islam is right. Only one can be right. But here we have countless so-called religions! What else to call it but sheer stupidity of humankind! When you understand the purpose behind all these religions you will see that they are all manifestations of the same truth. They are all meant to teach humankind the same thing. That is, how to live ideally and harmlessly. When you understand this very well in your mind there will remain no religion for you. Only the truth, which is universal, will be visible.
What is the need for nations? Why can’t the whole world live as one big country? The Nature, who has created the world, has not drawn lines on the planet, then why have humans drawn lines on the maps and divided the world into pieces! Why the rivalry and wars! Unless the whole humanity is mad, religions and nations can not be!
Religiousness and patriotism are not bad things at all, but only when your religion is a universal religion and your patriotism is for the whole world. In any other sense, these two words are very dangerous words in any language!
Yeah, I am born in India and I live there too, and for that reason if you tell I am Indian then there is nothing objectionable in it. But if you impose on me your values and ways-of-living saying every Indian should have them, then sorry! Chuck the business! I am no Indian!
I would like to be identified as a “universal being” who is not bound in the meanness as religions or nationality!
A Hindu can not love a Muslim. An Indian can not love an American. Of course, Hindu and Muslim, or Indian and American can be friends, for worldly purposes, but they can not love each other. However much you fight in your mind against this statement, it is true that any two groups can not love each other. Because if there is love, there can not be groups on the first place. The moment you say you are Hindu you have limited your love. Confined it within the boundary. You believe in Hinduism or Islam only when you are convinced in your mind about the superiority of one religion over the other. If you believe in Hinduism then in your mind you believe that the followers of Islam or Christianity are inferior to you. How can love develop between two people when one believes oneself to be superior to the other? There can only be a contract between such people, not love.
Same is with nationality. When you say you are Indian it is okay. But when you say India is the best, there is a problem. How many places on Earth have you been to? Unless you have spent a considerable time of your life in every country how can you decide which one is best? I tell you how it is. It is called fanaticism! And two fanatics can never love each other.
Today if the followers of one religion are fighting with the followers of other religion then for this fight every single human being who believes in any so-called religion is responsible. If nations go on war then every single person believing nationality is the cause of it. The problem is not with the religions or the nations. What are they, after all? Just the names. The problem lies in the fanatic mentality. Problem lies in the minds of people who have confined their love within the boundaries such as nationality and religion. War is not destructive only when it is fought on the battlefield, it is destructive even when it exists inside your mind – which, unfortunately, it does all the time. When you believe yourself to be belonging to any group there is a silent war inside your mind which is destroying the universal unity.
The one who truly understands what religion is believes in all religions, or does not believe in any of them – both meaning the same thing. There is only one religion, which is the Religion of Truth, and it says that the world is one, and it should be regarded as one. The truth can only be one. What is true for one human being is true for another human being. It is a simple logic. It is impossible that for one group of humans Hinduism is right, and for another group of humans Islam is right. Only one can be right. But here we have countless so-called religions! What else to call it but sheer stupidity of humankind! When you understand the purpose behind all these religions you will see that they are all manifestations of the same truth. They are all meant to teach humankind the same thing. That is, how to live ideally and harmlessly. When you understand this very well in your mind there will remain no religion for you. Only the truth, which is universal, will be visible.
What is the need for nations? Why can’t the whole world live as one big country? The Nature, who has created the world, has not drawn lines on the planet, then why have humans drawn lines on the maps and divided the world into pieces! Why the rivalry and wars! Unless the whole humanity is mad, religions and nations can not be!
Religiousness and patriotism are not bad things at all, but only when your religion is a universal religion and your patriotism is for the whole world. In any other sense, these two words are very dangerous words in any language!
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